Platitudes
[p'lætɪtju:dz]
Examples
- His speeches began to turn on platitudes--on the vague idealism and indisputable moralities of the Decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was getting late, and we had no time to fool away on every ass that wanted to drivel Greek platitudes to us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the past it has been an armory of platitudes or a forecast of punishments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Waldo